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In 1998 work on three titles was suddenly halted as Nintendo entered a furious race to secure the exclusive game rights to Harry Potter. That’s according to Unseen64 which says that workers at Nintendo of America’s internal team Nintendo Software Technology were in 1998 suddenly told to down tools on …

Jonathan Blow is ploughing all the money he made from time-bending platformer Braid into upcoming puzzler The Witness. Speaking toEngadget, Blow said though Braid still sells well on certain platforms, the income was not nearly enough” to continue funding his current project. As a result of the lack of his …

Nintendo is in the early stages of making a live-action The Legend of Zelda series that will be shown on Netflix, it has been claimed. The Wall Street Journal reports that Netflix is already in the early production stages with the show being described internally as Game of Thrones for …

The calls for Nintendo to release its games on smartphone may seem relentless, but it seems like the platform holder has other plans. Polar opposite plans, in fact. Kotaku reports that president Satoru Iwata told Nikkei that far from bringing Mario to iPhone, the company instead plans on bringing more …

Development has been halted on PS4 title Close Castles. Its creator, Asher Vollmer, is best known for making hit mobile title Threes. Close Castles is currently on hold. I am working on a new mobile game now,” he said on Twitter. I designed myself into a corner. I need to …

Nintendo says that the launch of Monster Hunter 4 could be the moment the Japanese smash hit franchise finally cracks the West. Monster Hunter is regularly amongst Japan’s best-selling games, shifting millions of units with each new release. But has yet to catch on in the same way in Europe …

Nintendo has unleashed a live-action TV ready to maximise the nostalgia surrounding the upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D. The 30-second short is small on detail, but gives a basic outline of the game’s plot and draws successfully on a number of iconic images and sounds …

Nintendo’s latest attempt to reach out to YouTubers has been ill received. Fuck you Nintendo,” PewDiePie said of the latest proposal, in which Nintendo would offer video creators between 60-70 per cent of their ad revenues in return for permission to create videos featuring its products. What they are missing …

Three new entries in the Japanese software charts push down previous top dogs Yokai Watch 2: Shinuchi, and Pocket Monster Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. According to data provided by Famitsu,Bandai Namco’s Tales of Zestiria debuted this week and shot straight to the top of the charts, selling 316,824 units. …

Nintendo posted a huge increase in profits and raised its earnings forecast, but cheap yen is masking weak sales. Nintendo profits for the nine months ending December 2014 hit 59.52 billion yen (332.6m), which is up almost six fold on the year before. This is primarily down to the launch …